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Recent Publications

As a pointer to the type of CL research being done at OSU, below is a sample of recent publications authored or co-authored by CLLT faculty or graduate students. For a full list, please refer to the authors' personal webpages.

2008

  • Boxwell and White, "Projecting Semantic Roles onto the CCGbank", Proceedings of the LREC, 2008.
  • P. Mohapatra and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Investigations into phonological attribute classifier representations for CRF phone recognition," Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
  • P. Mohapatra and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Incorporating Suprasegmental Knowledge for Phone Recognition with Conditional Random Fields," , Aalborg, Denmark, 2008.
  • E. Fosler-Lussier, "Strategies for teaching 'mixed' computational linguistics classes," The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics (TeachCL-08), Columbus, OH, 2008.
  • L. Stoia, D. Shockley, D. Byron, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "SCARE: A Situated Corpus with Annotated Referring Expressions," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morroco, 2008.
  • J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Conditional Random Fields for Integrating Local Discriminative Classifiers," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, 16:3, pp 617-628, March 2008.
  • E. Fosler-Lussier and J. Morris, "CRANDEM systems: Conditional Random Field Acoustic Models for Hidden Markov Models," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
  • I. Heintz, E. Fosler-Lussier, and C. Brew, "Latent Phonetic Analysis: Use of Singular Value Decomposition to Determine Features for CRF Phone Recognition," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.

2007

2006

  • Rytting, C.A. (2006). Finding the gaps: Applying a connectionist model of word segmentation to noisy phone-recognized speech data. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006--ICSLP).
  • Rytting, C.A. (2006). Is recurrence redundant? Revisiting Allen and Christiansen (1996). In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006).
  • Michael White. 2006. CCG Chart Realization from Disjunctive Inputs. In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-06).
  • Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Annotation Errors in Spoken Language Corpora''. Proceedings of the Special session on treebanks for spoken language and discourse at the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA). 2006. Joensuu, Finland.
  • Robert D. Levine & Detmar Meurers. ``Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Linguistic Approach, Formal Foundations, and Computational Realization''. Keith Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Combining phonetic attributes using conditional random fields," Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, 2006.
  • J. Morris and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Discriminative Phonetic Recognition with Conditional Random Fields," HLT-NAACL workshop on Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inference in Speech and Language Processing, New York, 2006.
  • Crystal Nakatsu and Michael White. 2006. Learning to Say It Well: Reranking Realizations by Predicted Synthesis Quality. To appear in Proc. COLING-ACL-06.
  • C. A. Rytting, "Finding the Gaps: Applying a Connectionist Model of Word Segmentation to Noisy Phone-Recognized Speech Data," Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, 2006.
  • L. Stoia, D. Byron, D. Shockley, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Noun Phrase Generation for Situated Dialogs," International Natural Language Generation Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2006.
  • Y. Wang and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Integrating phonetic boundary discrimination explicitly into HMM systems," Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, 2006.
  • Michael White. 2006. CCG Chart Realization from Disjunctive Inputs. To appear in Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-06).

2005

  • Fosler-Lussier, E. and Rytting, C.A. (2005). A cost-benefit analysis of hybrid phone-manner representations for ASR. HLT-EMNLP 2005.
  • Fosler-Lussier, E., Rytting, C.A., and Srinivasan, S. (2005). Phonetic ignorance is bliss: Investigating the effects of phonetic information reduction on ASR performance. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005--Eurospeech).
  • Adriane Boyd, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, and Donna Byron. Identifying non- referential it: A machine learning approach incorporating linguistically motivated patterns. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing, pages 40-47, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Chris Brew, Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Language and Computers: Creating an Introduction for a General Undergraduate Audience''. Proceedings of the Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing And Computational Linguistics, held at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05). Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Michael W. Daniels. Generalized ID/LP Grammar: A Formalism for Parsing Linearization-Based HPSG Grammars. PhD Thesis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. http://ling.osu.edu/~daniels/thesis.html
  • Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Annotation Errors in Spoken Language Corpora''. Proceedings of the Special session on treebanks for spoken language and discourse at the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA-05). Joensuu, Finland.
  • Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Errors in Discontinuous Structural Annotation''. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05). Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • E. Fosler-Lussier, I. Amdal, and H.-K. J. Kuo. "A Framework for Predicting Speech Recognition Errors," Speech Communication issue on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation, in press.
  • E. Fosler-Lussier, W. Byrne, and D. Jurafsky, Editorial, Speech Communication issue on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation, in press.
  • Xiaofei Lu. "Towards a hybrid model for Chinese word segmentation." Proceedings of the 4th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing held at the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-05), pp.189-192. Jeju Island, Korea.
  • Xiaofei Lu. "Hybrid methods for POS guessing of Chinese unknown words". Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05). pp. 1-6. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Detmar Meurers: ``On the use of electronic corpora for theoretical linguistics. Case studies from the syntax of German''. Lingua Volume 115 (11).
  • L. Stoia, T. Xu, D. Byron, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Populating semantic classes using large-scale corpora", MEANING-05 Workshop, Trento, Italy.

2004

  • Rytting, C.A. (2004). Segment predictability as a cue in word segmentation: Application to modern Greek. In Current Themes in Computational Phonology and Morphology: Seventh Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Phonology (SIGPHON), pp. 78-85. Barcelona, Spain: The Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison. Evaluating optimality theory for pronoun resolution algorithm specification. In Proceedings of the Discourse Anaphora and Reference Resolution Conference (DAARC2004), pages 27-32, September 2004.
  • Donna K. Byron and Whitney Gegg-Harrison. Eliminating non-referring noun phrases from coreference resolution. In Proceedings of the Discourse Anaphora and Reference Resolution Conference (DAARC2004), pages 21-26, September 2004.
  • Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: ``GIDLP: A Grammar Format for Linearization-Based HPSG''. Proceedings of the Eleventh Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp. 93-111.
  • Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: ``A grammar formalism and parser for linearization-based HPSG''. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004). Geneva.
  • Jiri Hana, Anna Feldman, and Chris Brew. 2004. ``A Resource-light Approach to Russian Morphology: Tagging Russian using Czech resources''. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). pp.222--229
  • Jiri Hana and Anna Feldman. 2004. ``Portable Language Technology: Russian via Czech.'' In Proceedings of the 2004 Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium. June 2004. Bloomington. Indiana.
  • Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers & Shuly Wintner (Eds.). ``Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation''. Special issue of Research on Language and Computation, Volume 2 (2). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Sun-Hee Lee, Donna Byron, and Whitney Gegg-Harrison. Annotations of zero p ronoun resolution in Korean using the Penn Korean Treebank. In Sandra Kubler, Joakim Nivre, Erhard Hinrichs, and Holger Wunsche, editors, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT'04), pages 75-88, Tubingen, Germany, 2004.
  • Xiaofei Lu. "Promoting learner awareness of transfer errors in ICALL". In Fritz Konig, Stephen Gaies, Yuan Gao, Fuyin Li, and Dexin Tang (eds.), Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching (ISALLT-04), pp. 521-530. Cedar Falls, IA: The University of Northern Iowa.
  • A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, C.-H. Lee, A. Potamianos, and A. Tsai. "Automatic Induction of Semantic Classes for Spoken Dialogue Systems," Speech Communication, 43:3, pp 183-203, 2004.

2003

  • A. Bell, D. Jurafsky, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand, M. Gregory, and D. Gildea. "Effects of disfluencies, predictability, and utterance position on word form variation in English conversation," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113:2, pp. 1001-1024, February, 2003.
  • Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: ``The secret life of focus exponents, and what it tells us about fronted verbal projections''. In Proceedings of the Tenth Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: ``Dealing with Optional Complements in HPSG-Based Grammar Implementations''. In Proceedings of the Tenth Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Errors in Part-of-Speech Annotation''. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-03). Budapest, Hungary.
  • Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Inconsistencies in Treebanks''. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2003). Växjö, Sweden.
  • E. Fosler-Lussier. "A Tutorial on Pronunciation Modeling for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition,", in S. Renals and G. Grefenstette (eds), Text and Speech Triggered Information Access, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003.
  • M. Galley, K. McKeown, E. Fosler-Lussier, H. Jing. "Discourse Segmentation of Multi-party Conversation," Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-03) Sapporo, Japan, July 2003.
  • H.-K. Kuo, C.-H. Lee, I. Zitouni, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Minimum Verification Error Training for Topic Verification," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2003), Hong Kong, China, 2003.
  • Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy & Vanessa Metcalf: ``Modularity of grammatical constraints in HPSG-based grammar implementations''. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2003 Workshop ``Ideas and strategies for multilingual grammar Engineering''. Vienna, Austria.
  • A. Potamianos, E. Ammicht, and E. Fosler-Lussier, “Modality tracking in the Multimodal Bell Labs Communicator,” IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, December 2003.

2002

  • W. Byrne, E. Fosler-Lussier, and D. Jurafsky, eds. Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation in Spoken Language Technology, Estes Park, Colorado, 2002.
  • Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: ``Improving the Efficiency of Parsing with Discontinuous Constituents''. In Shuly Wintner (ed.): Proceedings of NLULP'02: The 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming. pp. 49-68.
  • E. Fosler-Lussier, I. Amdal, and H.-K. J. Kuo. "On the road to improved lexical confusability metrics," ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation (PMLA-2002), Estes Park, Colorado, 2002.
  • H.-K. Kuo, E. Fosler-Lussier, H. Jiang, and C.-H. Lee. "Discriminative Training of Language Models for Speech Recognition," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.
  • H.-K. Kuo, I. Zitouni, E. Fosler-Lussier, E. Ammicht, and C.-H. Lee. "Discriminative Training for Call Classification and Routing," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), Denver, Colorado, 2002.
  • S. Lee, E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, H.-K. Kuo, and A. Potamianos, "Spoken Dialogue Evaluation for the Bell Labs Communicator System," Human Language Technologies Conference, San Diego, California, 2002.
  • W. Detmar Meurers, Gerald Penn & Frank Richter: ``A Web-Based Instructional Platform for Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms and Parsing'' In Dragomir Radev and Chris Brew (eds): Proceedings of the Workshop ``Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL'' held at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 7.-12. July 2002. pp. 18-25
  • A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Tsai. "Using part-of-speech tags, context thresholding, and trigram contexts to improve the auto-induction of semantic classes," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), Denver, Colorado, 2002.
  • Frank Richter, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Beata Trawinski & Detmar Meurers: ``Interactive Graphical Software for Teaching the Formal Foundations of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar'' In Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn and Shuly Wintner (eds): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2002. July 2002. pp. 137-148
  • A. J. Robinson, G. D. Cook, D. P. W. Ellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, S. J. Renals, and D. A. G. Williams. "Connectionist Speech Recognition of Broadcast News," Speech Communication 37:1-2, DARPA Broadcast News special issue, pp. 27--45, 2002.
  • R. Argiles Solsona, E. Fosler-Lussier, H.-K. Kuo, A. Potamianos and I. Zitouni. "Adaptive Language Models for Spoken Dialogue Systems," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.

2001

  • E. Ammicht, A. Potamianos, and E. Fosler-Lussier. "Ambiguity Representation and Resolution in Spoken Dialogue Systems," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
  • Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: ``On Partial Constituent Fronting in German´´. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 3:3, 2001.
  • P. Durston, M. Farrell, D. Attwater, J. Allen, H.-K. J. Kuo, M. Afify, E. Fosler-Lussier, C.-H. Lee. "OASIS Natural Language Call Steering Trial," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
  • E. Fosler-Lussier and H.-K. J. Kuo. "Using Semantic Class Information for Rapid Development of Language Models within ASR Dialogue Systems," International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2001), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001.
  • M. Galley, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos. "Hybrid Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
  • Tibor Kiss & Detmar Meurers. Introduction to Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Detmar Meurers: ``On Expressing Lexical Generalizations in HPSG´´. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 24:2.
  • Detmar Meurers: ``To flip or not to flip: On the nature of irregularities in the German verbal complex´´. Frank van Eynde, Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beerman (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Detmar Meurers & Kordula De Kuthy: ``Case Assignment in Partially Fronted Constituents´´. Christian Rohrer, Antje Rossdeutscher and Hans Kamp (Eds.): Linguistic Form and its Computation. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Detmar Meurers & Tibor Kiss (Eds.). Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Potamianos, and C.-H. Lee. "A comparison of four metrics for auto-inducing semantic classes," IEEE Automatics Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU-2001), Trento, Italy, 2001.
  • A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Potamianos, and C.-H. Lee. "Metrics for Measuring Domain Independence of Semantic Classes," Seventh European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '01), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.
  • C. Shih, G. Kochanski, E. Fosler-Lussier, M. Chan, and J.-H. Yuan. "Implications of Prosody Modeling for Prosody Recognition," ICSA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Prosody in Automatic Speech Recognition (PROSODY-2001), Red Bank, New Jersey, 2001.

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